There's no turning back now.

As if we would have ever considered that! I worked a half day today and then went to Portland. My dermatologist was able to fit me in a week early. I had a bit of freckle removed. For those of you who care, it went smashingly. Whilst I was gone, MacGyver was home making quick work of tearing the rest of the garage down! See? All gone!! And we met...

Panorama

I created a panoramic photo-collage-type image using Windows Live. Brilliant download, by the way.This is my way of making a tribute to this mammoth tree I have both learned to love and loat...

And this, boys and girls, is how we do it

I came home from work today and found MacGyver working on truckload number three of garage debris. Looks like I made it in time for the exciting parts! I like the way the tree looks looking up through the roof of the garage. MacGyver busted out the sawzall to cut the sides of the garage so the front could come off. This next part is the...

Back at it

After El Stinko blew up last week, demo on the garage was temporarily postponed. We were not so easily thwarted. El Stinko was back up and running yesterday and Garage Removal 2009 was back on track. By the time I came home for lunch, MacGyver had already been to the dump once and was working on removing the rest of the roof I think this is a...

For emphasis

This is a video I took a few years ago during a windstorm.I assure you it's much more dramatic than it appears in the vid...

Demolition Day...sort of

Today MacGyver planned to dismantle the garage/lean-to/health hazard/outbuilding that actually decreased the value of our home during the last appraisal. He spent about 2 hours busting out the roof of the garage and loaded up El Stinko (our old '72 Dodge Truck) to go to the dump. Apparently El Stinko had other plans and decided to blow up at precisely...

The Beginning

This will be the first of many (not too many, I hope) posts about our impending backyard transformation. Those of you who have been to our house (or have been within a sixty five mile radius of Tillamook) have seen the absolutely enormous Black Walnut tree growing in our absolutely not enormous backyard. Here are a few pictures of this voluminous deciduous. And...